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Wednesday, 31 August 2011

I'm back home! Yay! I can't wait for Friday to roll around so I can spend the whole day doing my nails. While I was house sitting I was getting stuck for ideas mainly because of having such a small amount of polishes with me! That and I never really had a chance to do my nails. But I have some ideas rolling around in my head now :]

Golden Peach is a great colour, and the frosty gold to it cools it down in a way, however I was a little bit saddened by how sheer it was, and it gave me a slight case of lobster hands. Foil'er Up is such an amazing coloured chrome though! So glad to have it in my stamping collection now ^_^ Apologies for the smeared stamp, I've ran out of my preferred top coat ( I scraped the walls of the bottle for the mani before this) and I used a Rimmel one, 10 day wear I think.

Also please excuse the state of my cuticles, and the fact the swatch is pre clean up. I seriously need a cuticle oil rather than lotion. Anyone have any recommendations?

Monday, 29 August 2011

Another quick post today, I haven't posted in what feels like an age, and I just haven't had the motivation while coping with these dreaded dogs ¬_¬ But I'll be back to posting regularly and doing my nails without hassle in a day or two. I really can't wait to go home, I've had more than enough time with these dogs. I want my own bed, and my kitties!

Thursday, 25 August 2011

You can't really tell too well from these pictures, but there's actually two chromes, pale pink, and a lilac, which switch top and bottom on alternating finger; if that makes any sense. For this I used 3 different Bundle Monster image plates and one Konad plate.

The blue is from a set of 4 mini's that I got as a "hard work" present from my old managers (<3 them) in the set there was a bright pink creme, a yellow, and two glass flecked polishes; this blue, and a turquoise mint type colour.

Wednesday, 24 August 2011

Ever since the contract for my job ended my boyfriend's been picking me up polishes here and there ^_^ So this is a random swatch of one he picked up from Peacock's the store :]

Trouble is; the glitter had pretty much solidified especially on the bottom, so I had to keep thinning it to make it usable. Because of the formula and the condition of it it took a while to dry, and took three coats for full coverage. At least it's super sparkly :]

Monday, 22 August 2011

Conditions are proving difficult for doing my nails. Dogs are really cute; but really clingy ¬_¬ And the sun's not been out too much, and there's not much bright lighting in this house. So I'm posting some images from the start of the month, until I manage to get some decent pictures.

Tuesday, 16 August 2011

Just a quickie post today. I'm house/dog sitting for two weeks, today Is my first day alone with the three little Shitzu's so I want to get used to their routine. Already I'm missing my kitties ;[ But these three cuties shall keep me entertained.

I did bring polishes with me though (mainly the birthday goodies) so I'm looking forward to trying those ^_^

Saturday, 13 August 2011

Just thought I'd do a quick post to explain that I'll more than likely not be posting until Monday, if I'm lucky.

I do however have lots of polishes to share from Birthday gifts ^_^ so I'll be starting with a haul no doubt. I also picked up a couple of polishes this week for a give away; which will be a while a way but still, I'm a hoarder ^-^

I'm also getting my first tattoo today, so I may post a pic of that next week :]

Thursday, 11 August 2011

I'll be posting some WAH inspired nails tomorrow, but as I don't have much time tonight I thought I'd share my little goodies I ordered from eBay maybe a week and a half back. Been running out of clear gems for a while now, and I've never had more than 20 little pearls (originally I had some from a nail art pack from Poundland) so I'm excited to do some more pearl lined half moons ^_^

These together cost £2.81! Not bad for 2400 gems, and 1800 2mm pearls :]

Wednesday, 10 August 2011

I did these a wee while before I even contemplated creating a blog, but I used a different flower for the stamping. I think maybe I used a full rose image. Not sure, anyways, here's the updated version :]

Friday, 5 August 2011

I've been dying to try the Aztec image on the Bundle Monster plate 221 and I was happy as larry to stamp it in black over a nude base colour, but the other half convinced me to use a few colours. I was doing this in my crappy bedroom lighting.. at about 11pm so I didn't really think they'd come out looking Rasta, using a turquoise and pink, but I liked them anyways :]

I started with my base coat, and then did one coat of white so the yellow would be a bit more opaque (it's a bit thin). I then used the yellow to paint a strip down the middle of the nail, when that was dry I used a piece of tape to tape off the yellow from the other sections to get a crisp colour line, and then I painted them too, using turquoise and pink. In the end I did two coats of each colour, so the white wasn't really necessary. I then stamped the aztec design using my favourite black, trying to get the lines to match. And added a top coat.

I went to bed before these were fully dry ;( they needed another top coat in the picture. Woops.

I do love me some George polishes and they haven't failed to deliver this time either. Confusion looks darker here than it actually is, but the shimmer is so pretty. And Meteorite goes on like buttah I've been looking for a darker green cream recently so I'm a bit chuffed with this one. I'm dying to try them for stamping too as they almost only needed one coat.

Tuesday, 2 August 2011

I'll start off by saying I had such a hard time trying to capture all the colour flashes in this polish. It flashes purple, and green, and it's just so drool worthy - couldn't stop looking at my hands. and the formula's amazing, I had no problems at all with dragging, balding, and it was perfect in two coats.